DEBORAH MORGAN lives in Liverpool with her family. Before taking up writing, she worked as a chambermaid, a bingo caller, a dressmaker and a primary school teacher.
Written at the instigation of legendary Liverpudlian filmmaker Terence Davies, the first chapter of Disappearing Home was the runner-up in the 'Pulp Idol' writing competition at Liverpool's Writing on the Wall Festival 2010, for which an editor from Tindal Street Press was a judge.